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Letter: Water Park Promises Keep Evaporating

The water park was voted on by the voters, and I believe it was just added in to get money for other projects and it was voted in. Now there is no money dangling the carrot in front of the rabbit. We are getting new fire trucks and fire stations, new sidewalks downtown and improvements to parks, but no water park. The city is always concerned about keeping young people off the streets and out of trouble, and this park would keep them busy and pay for itself in no time and they know that.

I saw on the news now that they must need money for other things, and they are dangling the carrot again, saying they need the 1 percent sales tax extension approved in May in order for there to be a water park. It’s already been voted in, now where is the money?

These are not meant as accusations toward anyone; it’s just my personal opinion. I feel the voters and children have already been let down and need to vote new people in office. Who knows, we may never get the park. I feel the children and the people of Fort Smith have been let down, and now it is scheduled a year later to be built.